The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-01

THB Connellsville Coke Syndicate met q
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 2lst and reaflrme(
the card rate on coke Of - per ton. TRADE
was reported good. Il was reported prob
able that the agreement with the Producers
Association would be renewed.
TIE walls Of the burned Richmond Hotel
Buffalo. N. T., have been torn down. NJ
| more bodies were found In the ruins. The
| safes contents were not injured.
TIE missing steamer Scotia reached Lonl
Island on the 18th and was run ashore, hel
machinery having given out.
A DISPATCH to the Boston Chamber Of
Commerce reported that the yacht Daunt
less had won the ocean race, having arrived
OF Roche's point ON the 25th. She was {
little over thirteen DAYS nm the passage.
TnA WAoA.
ONE hundred Western brewers met In
Chicago yesterday and organized a pro
tective association to fight the opposers OF
the beer traffic and settle disputes with
workmeu.
CARUrHERs, the great pitcher, has signed
with the st. Louis team. 1t IL understood
that he is to receive $1,000.
The blockade on the Canadian Pacific
railway has been raised and trains now run
to the Pacific Ocean.
The vinegar manufacturers west of the
Mississippi have formed pool.
The Consolidated Street Railway Com
pany Of Cincinnati has given way to Its
men in every respect.
JUDGE CHARLES r. WHITE Of the Com
mon Pleas Court OF Springfield, O., has
decided that Bohemian oats notes are valid
in innocent hands.
THE jackson family-father, mother and
two children-were drowned in the recent
flood at Painted Woods, near Bismarck,
Oak.
AN attempt was made recently to assassi-
nate George s. Bailey, at Springfield. LII.
He belonged to the Labor party, represent
ing East st. Louis in the Legislature, and
it was thought the attempt at assassina.
tion was made by anarchists, whom he
strongly opposed.
The aggregate Of hogs slaughtered in Chi
caS,o during the twelve months ended March
1 was 4, ~, 900, or decrease sol 600 rs COM
pared to one year ago. The decrease is At
tributed to the stock-yards strike of last
November. The number Of cattle slaught-
cred during the same period was 1,6OS,O O0.
This shows an increase Of $4,000 head over
any previous year.
The Democrats Of Chicago have placed
in nomination the following ticket: For
mayor. Carter H. Harrison; for city treas
urer, John II. McAvoy: for city attorney,
Charles Allen; for city clerk, Henry Stuck
art.
The Indian who killed Lieutenant Mott
and wounded Frank Porter in Arizona has
been captured.
TWELVE miners were burned to death at
Bessemer, Mich, recently by the boarding
house of the Colby mine taking fire. The
occupants were asleep at the time Some
few escaped by leaping from the windows
THE demands of the dissatisfied employees
OF the North Chicago rolling mills have
been conceded almost in their entirety.
EVERY few weeks the country is informed
that the Tongue River Indians, of Montana.
are starving to death. A recent dispatch
from Agent Upshaw was to the effect that
no Indians under that agency have starved
to death, and that they are drawing their
ratiOns.
AT the passenger meeting of the Central
Traffic Association at Chicago recently con-
ill-feelng was developed over the
refusal of the Chicago 4 Grand Trunk road
TO agree to the abrogation of second class
rates. The adjustment of commissions
was also discussed and report made to
the managers that it was not feasible, as
several of the lines refused to agree to the
reform.
THE Miners Association of the coke
region has elected John Mcbride, Of Colum.
bus, O., and William Mullen. of Scottdale,
Pa, arbitrators. The board to settle the
wage dispute will meet soon.
SODA pop and mineral water bottling
works of Chicago have effected consollda.
ton with a capital stock of S,jOO.OOO. and
have placed all their manufactures, deliv-
cry wagons and other appliances into the
pool. Only three firms remained outside of
the combination.
THE Grand Trunk railway has cut loose.
so Chicago report says, from the Central
Traffic Association.
AN extra session of the Missouri Lcgisla-
tnre has been called for May III.
JACKSON MARION was hanged at Beatrice,
Neb., on the 18th, for the murder of John
Cameron in 1872
By a collision on a heavy grade near Lee
onia, o., the other morning. two cars OF an
express train were wrecked and the en-
gineer killed and six persons injured. An
attempt to repair an AIR brake was the
cause.
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